National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday ran a story on Sept. 17 about how schools are emphasizing the importance of reading and math and leaving other subjects, social studies in particular, behind. This largely the result of NCLB-induced testing mania, which makes reading and math scores just about the only thing that matters in U.S. schools.
Fred Risinger, former coordinator of Social Studies Education at the School of Education at Indiana
University, discusses the problem with Liane Hansen in a segment titled Social Studies Goes to the Back of the Class
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